Seattle Slew - The 1977 Belmont Stakes

Improved footage and different camera angles of The Slew's classic Belmont win. Great footage, especially on the backstretch, showing the vast expanse that is Belmont Park.

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Sports

Tags:

• Thoroughbred
• Horse
• Racing
• Seattle
• Slew
• Rundustyrun
• Sanhedrin
• 1977
• Belmont
• Stakes
• New
• York
• Chic
• Anderson

[grgoldner]

I think Slew had way more competition than Big Red. Run Dusty Run, Iron Constitution, et al. It is a toss up.

[cf1970]

I humbly disagree with you. Seattle Slew is firmly entrenched in my top five of all time (it changes from time-to-time, save the #1 spot), but Secretariat faced Forego, Sham, Our Native, among others; not to mention taking on the Hall of Fame triumverate of Riva Ridge, Tentam, Cougar II, and the superb Prove Out after the Triple Crown.

To say that Slew had "way more" competition is simply not true. His competition at 3 was good, but not great, with all due respect to Slew.

Have a good day.

[livestrong2007]

There are certain horses you simply never get tired of watching. Slew was certainly one of them. Nice work.

[cf1970]

Amen to that. Thank you for the kind compliment. Take care.

[TCBinTN]

SS running in the KD is my first HR memory. I was amazed at how that beautiful horse could run. He was a great horse.

[Farrah300]

@jlalewicz I totally agree with you, especially when it comes to Barbaro.

[mshobohorse]

Slew starts from 2nd or 1st place in the race. Secretariat usually starts from the back of the pack to collect momentum. They're both great horses, there's no reason to think 1 is better than the other. The same goes for Ruffian and Foolish Pleasure, Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra. (Though Secretariat is by far my most favorite)

[jlalewicz]

Slew was such a magnificent horse & one of the top racehorses of all time. Secretariat, Affirmed, Alydar....MAGNIFICENT!! Wish we'd had more time to see what Barbaro would have shown us...gone far too soon:(

[RuffianRunsForever16]

There's no point in comparing horses when we can all agree they were ALL amazing horses..... let's be happy we were graced with such horses, and we have these videos to look back and remember. I wasn't even born when this was run for that matter lolz

[joefederico]

Seattle Slew was a great horse, there is no debating that but his 3-y/o competition was average at best. Run Dusty Run was a good horse but nothing special. Iron Constitution was a 1-dimensional dead stoner closer who loved the mud and still couldn't beat Slew. Jean Cruguet rode Slew awesomely and never pushed more than he needed. Slew solidified his greatness as a 4 y/o beating Affirmed.

[all66books]

OK, I have found out this much; the late Smiley Adams was Run Dusty Runs' trainer for his whole career. RDRs rider for the Derby & Preakness was replaced with Sandy Hawley. So it was a change of riders, not trainers.

[all66books]

I remember that the owner of Run Dusty Run actually switched trainers after RDRs third place finish in the Preakness because he was certain that he had the horse who could beat Slew. I've been trying to look up the details to that story, but haven't been successful. Could somebody fill in the blanks, deny/confirm this? I'm pretty sure that I'm remembering at least that much correctly.